Jessica Tarlov

But Powell says it's about retaliation.

And actually...

A lot of Republicans are admitting that it's about retaliation and you don't usually get that.

Like they say, I haven't seen what you're talking about.

Or they're like, my mom is on the phone.

And they were all like, no, this sucks.

Or did you see Roger Marshall said, oh, I think it's a troll.

I'm like, you're a senator.

You're one of a hundred.

And you're saying that this is a troll?

Well, it is when you have put a toddler in the Oval Office.

That is true.

As the mother of two of those little beast monkeys.

This takes going far beyond Jerome Powell about whether the Federal Reserve can remain independent, whether monetary policy is now vulnerable to intimidation from Democrats.

the White House.

I don't know if you read the Washington Post piece about how all this unfolded, but it seems like Trump is just fully throwing Bondi and Jeanine Pirro under the bus with this one.

And the imagery of Bill Pulte sitting at Mar-a-Lago with one of his famous posters with a

a wanted sign over Jerome Powell's face.

And that's how he convinced Trump that this was going to be a good idea.

It's so perfectly this administration, right, that they're sitting there and there's like a girl in a huge martini glass and they're having a Gatsby-themed party.